How to Use shortsighted in a Sentence

shortsighted

adjective
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  • The plan was dangerously shortsighted.
  • Games moving forward and the wins and losses that come with them are a shortsighted view.
    — Julian McWilliams, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Sep. 2022
  • Those who grouse about the cost are being as shortsighted as their rich patrons.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2021
  • On top of that, the idea that the Telegraph Company was shortsighted and failed to see the potential of the telephone doesn’t seem to bear out.
    — WIRED, 10 Mar. 2023
  • That has left us with a shortsighted recipe bank and omitted the cuisines of entire regions and cultures....
    — The Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2020
  • Pinning so much hope on the deal with China seems shortsighted.
    — Jon Sindreu, WSJ, 16 Jan. 2020
  • This is shortsighted and will erase the charm that makes Winter Garden special.
    — Stephen Hudak, orlandosentinel.com, 25 Feb. 2021
  • But both of those are shortsighted, largely untrue, and negligent of the rules.
    — Heather Hansman, Outside Online, 25 June 2020
  • Should that rule be enforced because someone was once shortsighted enough to write it down?
    — Jim Souhan, Star Tribune, 4 July 2021
  • The coal industry, for its part, says that many of these retirements may prove shortsighted.
    — Brad Plumer, New York Times, 13 May 2020
  • This seems shortsighted, though, as the carmakers could learn a lot from what Comma.ai has accomplished.
    — Dave Vanderwerp, Car and Driver, 10 Feb. 2020
  • The shortsighted practice of stopping all fire, experts say, is no longer an option.
    — Sarah Kaplan, Anchorage Daily News, 2 July 2021
  • The Navy brass was too shortsighted to make use of their invention, but in the 1950s, with that patent as a basis, the military put Lamarr’s ideas into practice.
    — Mick Lasalle, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Mar. 2018
  • To think that any player, let alone a superstar like Betts, doesn’t care about winning is shortsighted.
    — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2024
  • The light rail budget item is cynical and shortsighted.
    — The Observer Editorial Board, charlotteobserver, 29 May 2018
  • Although the rock star was a cash cow while alive, his lavish spending habits and shortsighted deal-making left the family in dire straits once he was gone.
    — Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2023
  • But telling a generation raised on Alexa that AI could someday turn on you for being rude seems a bit shortsighted.
    — Brian Barrett, Wired, 24 July 2021
  • This incessant ragging has been all too easy—and maybe shortsighted.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 1 Dec. 2021
  • Some recruiters might believe having a peer group at work is the holy grail of retention today, but that view is shortsighted.
    — Bruce Tulgan, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Jen Psaki's scornful response to the idea of free at-home tests reflects just how shortsighted the U.S. government's response to Covid-19 still is.
    — Melody Schreiber, The New Republic, 8 Dec. 2021
  • But not to understand that the Beatles transformed rock ’n’ roll would be very shortsighted.
    — New York Times, 15 Oct. 2020
  • Texas didn’t pay for that, either, in another cost-saving move that proved shortsighted.
    — Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2021
  • That thing was shortsighted and ill-fated from the beginning, and history will not and does not smile fondly upon it.
    — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Nov. 2022
  • The PitchBook data also shows the preference for male founders shown in the pandemic is shortsighted.
    — Courtney Vinopal, Quartz, 3 Nov. 2021
  • Before McCarthy came on board, Viacom had sold off the streaming rights to some of its assets in what amounted to a shortsighted view of the cord-cutting market.
    — Sridhar Pappu, The Atlantic, 10 Nov. 2022
  • It is shortsighted, however, to believe that Gorsuch has come up with a workable solution that no one thought of lo these many years.
    — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 11 Oct. 2021
  • Of course, the shortsighted manipulations of both the natural world and of people are the common currency of the colonial era.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Aug. 2023
  • The problem is that humans are shortsighted, unable to foresee or evaluate long-term harm.
    — Diane Bell, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 July 2023
  • To believe the department’s work is now done is shortsighted and potentially harmful to those inside and outside the prison.
    — Theresa Vargas, Washington Post, 22 May 2018
  • As before, the fun here is watching robots poke fun at the ridiculously shortsighted ways in which humans tried, and failed, to stave off an apocalypse of their own making.
    — Scott Meslow, Vulture, 25 May 2022

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